Night music: essays on music 1928-1962 / by Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Rolf Tiedemann ; translated and introducded by Wieland Hoban

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Adorno, Theodor W

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TextLanguage: Eng Publication details: Calcutta : London : Seagull books, 2009.Description: xv, 473 pISBN:

9781906497217

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780.122 ADO-N

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Contents : PART I. Moments musicaux-- Foreword -- Beethoven's late style -- Schubert -- Homage to Zerlina -- The pictorial world of Der Freischütz -- The tales of Hoffmann in Offenbach's motives -- On the score of Parsifal -- Night music -- Ravel -- New tempi -- On jazz -- Physiognomy of Krenek -- Mahagonny -- Zillig's Verlaine songs -- Reaction and progress -- Schönberg's wind quintet -- Alienated magnum opus : The Missa solemnis -- PART II. Theory of new music-Nineteen encyclopaedia articles on new music -- Atonal intermezzo? -- Against the new tonality -- Excursuses on an excursus -- Why twelve-note music? -- The development and forms of new music -- New music today -- On the state of composition in Germany -- On the relationship between painting and music today -- On the current relationship between philosophy and music.

Summary: "Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno - Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and Theory of New Music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. In Moments musicaux, Adorno echoes Schubert s eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and offers lyrical reflections on music of the past and his own time. The essays include extended aesthetic analyses that demonstrate Adorno s aim to apply high philosophical standards to the study of music. Theory of New Music, as its title indicates, presents Adorno's thoughts and theories on the composition, reception, and analysis of the music that was being written around him. His extensive philosophical writing ultimately prevented him from pursuing the compositional career he had once envisaged, but his view of the modern music of the time is not simply that of a theorist, but clearly also that of a composer. Though his advocacy of the Second Viennese School, comprising composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, is well known, many of his writings in this field have remained obscure. Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in Night Music show the breadth of Adorno's musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker."--Jacket.

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English translations of Moments musicaux and Theory of New Music, both compiled by Adorno.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents : PART I. Moments musicaux--
Foreword --
Beethoven's late style --
Schubert --
Homage to Zerlina --
The pictorial world of Der Freischütz --
The tales of Hoffmann in Offenbach's motives --
On the score of Parsifal --
Night music --
Ravel --
New tempi --
On jazz --
Physiognomy of Krenek --
Mahagonny --
Zillig's Verlaine songs --
Reaction and progress --
Schönberg's wind quintet --
Alienated magnum opus : The Missa solemnis --
PART II. Theory of new music-Nineteen encyclopaedia articles on new music --
Atonal intermezzo? --
Against the new tonality --
Excursuses on an excursus --
Why twelve-note music? --
The development and forms of new music --
New music today --
On the state of composition in Germany --
On the relationship between painting and music today --
On the current relationship between philosophy and music.

"Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno - Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and Theory of New Music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. In Moments musicaux, Adorno echoes Schubert s eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and offers lyrical reflections on music of the past and his own time. The essays include extended aesthetic analyses that demonstrate Adorno s aim to apply high philosophical standards to the study of music. Theory of New Music, as its title indicates, presents Adorno's thoughts and theories on the composition, reception, and analysis of the music that was being written around him. His extensive philosophical writing ultimately prevented him from pursuing the compositional career he had once envisaged, but his view of the modern music of the time is not simply that of a theorist, but clearly also that of a composer. Though his advocacy of the Second Viennese School, comprising composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, is well known, many of his writings in this field have remained obscure. Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in Night Music show the breadth of Adorno's musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker."--Jacket.

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